When Manchester City sent James McAtee on loan for the season at Championship side Sheffield United, they did so for a few reasons.
One was that McAtee was desperate to play regular first-team football, even if City and Pep Guardiola would have preferred him to stay at the club and train regularly with the squad. Another was that City identified the Sheffield club as a team that a style of football that would help aid McAtee's development - there would be no point sending a young City player to a team that practices 'route one' style football.
It's safe to assume that they did not send him to the Championship to bare the brunt of reckless tackles, but that is exactly what happened on Tuesday night.
